I am using Gear Pro 5.00 on a Linux machine using Red Hat 2.4, and the firmware on the SONY drive is 2c.

What is "rc"?

Like I mentioned, I can burn a single tar file up to 2.4 GB on a DVD. After I erased the previous file, the next file I tested is 3.0GB and it does not appear to be written properly. I did not take it to another DVD drive to see if just was not reporting the 3 GB file was read incorrectly.

The rc number is the release candidate. It identifies the specific version or build of each copy of GEAR. You find it in the "About GEAR" dialog box that is found in the help menu of the GEAR GUI. You should see both a version number, followed by "rc xx", where xx is the rc number.

The system admin believes that error has something to do with building dialog boxes in java for the display. He installed the newest j2re for Linux and explicitly set the LD_Library_Path for the new java. He included paths to most of the standard system libraries in case somehow they were being ignored. No difference. He is guessing that there is a library missing or there is some X-Windows factor library missing that we need but don't know about yet.

Got any ideas?

Thanks
Darwin

Last edited by darwin.adams on Mon Jan 03, 2005 8:21 pm; edited 1 time in total

You should be able to use the CLI (command line interface) of GPL. I believe that there may be a bug with the libraries for GPL. It is being looked into. Instead of running geargui, try running gear from a console window.

I used the "batch format" as we are unable to use the GUI. I was NOT able to read the file I wrote on the Linux machine correctly after I had burned it. It reports the file size as 1.2 MB, and will not open correctly. If you look at the log file I created during the batch execution, ir reports the right size as it's burned.

If I take the burned disc to a PC runing Win 2k, it reads and reports the file normally.

Are there any Linux limitations reading large file sizes? I had no problem creating the tar file on the Linux machine in the first place.

I also was successful writing a 1.2 GB file to a DVD-R disc. This disc is able to be read correctly. My next test will be a 3.8 GB file on a DVD-R.

This is the batch file I used for the 3.8 GB file on a DVD+RW - Can you look it over for any "red flags"?.
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log dvdtest_batch.log
newvol dvdtest_batch 509
newtrk isoudf
copy /xxxx/adamsdg/DVD/3.2GB.tar
writecd
closevol
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I see you made a ISOUDF project. That may be the problem. ISO has a limitation for file sizes up to 3.5 GB. UDF is what you would want to use to burn a file larger than 3 GB.

Why it worked on Windows? Windows was showing you the UDF part of the disc which burned correctly. Linux by default will mount the disc as ISO, giving you the wrong information. Try forcing Linux to mount the disc as UDF. It should then give you the correct size.